Snook v. Herrmann

MOORE, Justice.

This is an appeal by an employer and insurance carrier from trial court’s judgment sustaining industrial commissioner’s allowance of workmen’s compensation benefits to the natural born child of an employee electrocuted while trimming trees. The child, plaintiff-appellee, had been adopted by her maternal grandparents approximately six months before her father’s death.

Appellants assert the trial court erred in holding (1) a natural child of a deceased employee, adopted by and living with adoptive parents prior to death of the natural parent, was conclusively presumed to be wholly…